Upcoming Conferences

Eco-Translation: Responding to the Work of Michael Cronin

Friday 14-Saturday 15 May 2021, Online

This two-day online conference focuses on the work of our keynote speaker, the influential Irish translation theorist Michael Cronin. Leading UK and international scholars of translation, eco-criticism and environmental studies will be addressing issues highlighted in Cronin’s recent work, in particular Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017). Cronin’s book explores the challenges to translation posed by human-induced environmental change, with topics ranging from the translation of travel literature to endangered languages and inter-species communication. 

The conference is co-organised by the British Centre for Literary Translation and the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at UEA.

More details to follow. Register an interest by emailing bclt@uea.ac.uk

Previous Conferences

Publishing in Translation: A day-conference at BCLT with panel events, workshops and networking bringing together publishers, literary translators and researchers.

Saturday 30 November 2019, 10.30-4.30pm, Thomas Paine Study Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich

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Sebald - Image - Translation

Friday 11 May 2019, University of East Anglia, Norwich

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Literary Translation Workshops: Bridging Communities Affected by Past Conflicts

Friday 23 November 2018, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, Norwich

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Venuti and After: A day-conference at BCLT on the work of Lawrence Venuti and its impact on Translation Studies

9am-6pm, Friday 11 May 2018, University of East Anglia, Norwich

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Innovation & Experimentalism in Translation and Translation Theory

18 & 19 November 2017, University of East Anglia, Norwich

The 7th Biennial Postgraduate Translation Symposium focused on innovative or experimental developments in literary translation practices, in translation theory, across the history of translation and in the practical applications of translation. We pondered both new critical developments, and new creative opportunities. It considered the challenges, and explored whether innovation has its limits. It also considered where innovation and experimentalism may lead the future of Translation Studies.

Keynote speakers: Dr Rocío Baños Piñero, UCL; Professor Catherine Boyle, KCL; Professor Tom Cheesman, Swansea; Clive Scott, Emeritus Professor, UEA.

The symposium was generously supported by:

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UEA; the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership; the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT).

Sound recordings of some of the 2017 PG Symposium sessions can be found on the BCLT SoundCloud page. Download Clive Scott's accompanying PowerPoint.

Shakespeare in Translation

10 & 11 December 2016, University of East Anglia, Norwich

In collaboration with the British Council, Globe Education and Writers' Centre Norwich.

A conference that brought together translators, academics and theatre practitioners from the UK and overseas to discuss Shakespeare in translation and his international reception. This was the final event in the British Council’s 2016 programme “A Great Feast of Languages”, which marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. It featured three translation workshop sessions, six short presentations on aspects of Shakespeare in translation, and recorded perfomances of new translations produced by participants in international translation workshops held in Cologne, Mexico City and Singapore.

Dalit Literature And/In Translation

29 - 30 June 2015 at the University of East Anglia

The Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University, UK, in collaboration with the research centre EMMA at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France, created an international academic network to enable a multi-disciplinary dialogue on Indian literature produced by Dalits (formerly known as Untouchables) by hosting a series of workshops and conferences on the production, translation, dissemination and analysis of Dalit literature.

As part of this network, BCLT hosted a conference at the University of East Anglia in June 2015. Two videos recordings of the conference are available on YouTube - Part 1 & Part 2.

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Literary Translation: Redrawing the Boundaries

Thursday 4 December 2014

University of East Anglia

A round table to celebrate the publication of Literary Translation: Redrawing the Boundaries (Palgrave Macmillan) edited by Jean Boase-Beier, Antoinette Fawcett and Philip Wilson.

Literary Translation: Redrawing the Boundaries is a collection of articles that gathers together current work in literary translation to show how research in the field can speak to other disciplines whilst simultaneously learning from them.

Contributors included  BJ Epstein, Duncan Large, Clive Scott and George Szirtes.